Re: [at-l] Trespassing on the Ice Ponds

[OrangeBug <thornel@ibm.net>]

Actually that is not so farfetched. Much Park land around the country was 
donated in lieu of taxes and cash during the Great Depression, particularly 
when such land holdings became an embarrassment and unusable. There are 
several charitable organizations that help landowners donate with favorable 
tax implications.

Often by showing respect and appreciation for land, explaining the cultural 
significance of the land, and providing some form of quid pro quo (WF 
Thorneloe Stinking Duck Reserve for instance), we can aid landowners to 
contribute land, easements, use restrictions, and such. By calling them 
stinking capitalist pigs, we encourage the sale to DuPont Chemical (just an 
unfair example) for a future SuperFund Waste and Wrestling Pit instead.

It is a lot like sincerity - when you learn how to fake it, you really have 
the world by the short hairs.

Happy Holidays.

OrangeBug
Atlanta, GA

At 01:18 PM 12/29/1999 -0800, Cora Drake wrote:
>Let's start a fad:  rich people buying unspoiled land and slapping 
>conservation easements on it just to prove they can.

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